Agaricus


Agaricus homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common names: Bug or fly Agaric; Germ., Fliegenschwamm; Fr., Fausse orange.

Introduction

Agaricus muscarius, L.; Natural order: Fungi.

Preparation: Tincture of the fresh fungus.

Mind.

Fury.

He becomes so furious that he can hardly be restrained from ripping up his bowels, as he fancies the mushroom had ordered him to do.

Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy; also, frenzy which causes the patient to assail and injure himself, with great exertion of power.

He is intoxicated with fearless frenzy; forming bold and revengeful projects.

Screaming and raving like mad about the room.

Delirium.

Delirium, with increase of strength.

Raging delirium; called for his hatchet; had to be confined; alternated with religious excitement.

Increase of strength, with cheerful delirium; the patient sings and talks, but returns no answer when questioned.

Delirium; he imagines himself a military officer, commanding at a drill and directing the various manoeuvres.

Half an hour later, he falls into a delirium, like a patient with a high fever, and becomes now immoderately gay, now profoundly melancholy.

Great mental excitement.

He talks incoherently; passes very rapidly from one subject to another, and soon enters a state of cheerful delirium, with great loquacity.

She ran about the yard, romped with the children, threw them down even hit them.

He imagines himself at the gate of hell and that the mushroom commands him to fall on his knees and confess his sins, which he does.

The father had phantasies; seemed to see his dead sister in heaven.

The natives of Siberia intoxicate themselves with this decoction.

Soon after drinking it they become jolly, and are gradually seized with such a fit off gayety that they take to singing, leaping, and reciting before the beauties of the tribe their exploits in war or the case.

Their physical strength is increased.

They fall asleep, and after twelve or sixteen hours of slumber, they awake in a state of utter prostration; the head, however, does not feel so empty as after intoxication by brandy.

Talking volubly and respectfully, as if to his parents; returning no direct answers when questioned; he alternately sings and is vexed, embraces his companions and kisses their hands.

He performs all these actions while affected with a general spasm, more like a trembling than convulsion.

Great loquacity, and at the same time strong convulsions of the facial and cervical muscles, especially on the right side, drawing the head down toward the right shoulder.

At the same time, movements of flexion and extension alternately in the lower limbs, not preventing locomotion; these cause movements of putting them down and lifting them.

He walks for some time in this way, with a great deal of merry, incoherent talk.

After this condition has lasted more than half an hour it is followed by quietude, disturbed, in a little while, by nausea and general malaise.

During intoxication they lift and carry the heaviest loads, take long steps and jump over small objects, as if trunks of trees lay in their way.

Tumbled about the room in the most grotesque manner.

Laughed about their not standing and walking straight.

Some run and walk involuntarily in the most dangerous places.

Some of them leap, dance, and sing; others weep with anguish; a small hole appears to them a frightful chasm; a spoonful of water an immense lake (only from abuse of the drug).

Dancing.

Singing.

Telling secrets.

Extravagantly exalted fancy, ecstasy, prophecies, making verses.

Great prostration, with delirium very much resembling that which occurs in adynamic fevers.

Taken in moderation it excites in intellect and inspires cheerfulness and courage.

Bright mood, with absence of care.

Bright mood, but no inclination to talk.

Calm, composed, sociable, active, and glad of having done his duty (healthful reaction of the organism).

Cheerfulness took the place of ill-humor.

Cheering up.

He force himself to speak; but he answers only in a few words, though his general disposition is cheerful at the time.

He does not feel disposed to speak, though he is not ill- humored.

An impulse to laugh overcame him in bed, owing to an indescribably mixed sensation of happiness and misery.

Depression of spirits.

His mood was depressed.

Discouragement.

Melancholy that cannot be overcome.

Sad mood from trifling causes.

The gayety changes into suffering.

Anxiety.

Anxiety, as though something unpleasant were going to happen to her.

His mind is uneasy and anxious; he was constantly concerned only about himself, his present and future condition.

Restlessness and uneasiness of body and mind (after the lapse of half an hour).

Timid craziness.

Fretfulness of mind.

Vexed, irritable, moody.

Ill-humor and irritability.

Peevish and irritable mood.

Extremely peevish and irritable.

Quarrelsome mood.

Easily irritated and out of humor.

Reading did not fix his attention as usual; he soon became excited, grew angry at the servant and felt inclined to fight.

She is vexed with herself and pities herself.

Ill-humored and indifferent.

Waking in morning in ill-humor.

She was very much out of humor all day and disinclined to answer when asked questions.

Disinclination to speak, with ill-humor, peevishness, and disinclination to work.

She who ordinarily felt so extremely solicitous about everything, is now quite indifferent.

It seemed as though he were at a loss to discover the words he wished to use.

Thoughtless staring; disinclined to think; he is sluggish and dull.

Indifference and moody taciturnity; repugnance to work.

Disinclination to work.

He trifles with everything, to save himself the trouble of working.

Aversion too all labor that occupies the mind; if he, nevertheless, undertakes any, there is a rush of blood to the head, throbbing in the arteries, heat in the face, and the thinking faculty is disturbed.

Indisposition to think.

Confusion of mind, with silent delirium, which lasts all day.

Heaviness of mind; imbecility (reaction of the organism in old age).

Stupefaction.

Forgetful; he finds it difficult to recollect the things which he had heard and imagined before.

The train of thought is easily disturbed, and the last thoughts cannot be recalled easily.

The patient retains no recollection of his serious sickness.

Next day the patient did not remember having been indisposed; he thought he had made a journey.

Loss of consciousness,.

Senseless, with closed eyes. Unconscious, with red, puffy face.

Head.

Confusion of the head.

Confusion of the head, with dull pain (after two hours).

Confusion and heaviness of the head (after two hours).

The head is heavy, confused (especially in forehead), as if pressed in.

Head confused throughout the forenoon.

Burrowing in the brain, as though everything were moving there in confusion.

Confusion of the head towards noon, and slightly cool, creeping feeling in the scalp of the vertex, with sensation as if the scalp of the vertex, with sensation as if the scalp were drawn more tightly over the skull.

Early in the morning, heaviness and confusion of the head, as if he had been revealing the day before, lasting six hours.

Vertigo.

Violent vertigo; she is often compelled to sit down.

Vertigo, at 5 A.M., that rarely cease during the day.

Vertigo, while walking, making his gait unsteady.

Vertigo, from afternoon till late in the evening, with an indescribable impulse to fall over backwards.

Reeling.

Staggering, as if drunk.

Reeling and sinking down (on the second day).

Reeling when walking in the open air (after an hour).

Reeling, as from spirituous liquors; when walking in the open air he staggers to and fro.

Giddiness, as from intoxication.

Vertigo in the room; better in the open air, but soon returns.

Sudden vertigo, that throws him down.

It seems to her as if she were constantly turning round; she was quickly obliged to sit on the ground to prevent herself from falling; this vertigo lasted very violently got two hours.

The head of the sun causes violent vertigo.

Strong light of the sun produces, early in the morning, a momentary attack of giddiness, even to falling.

Transient vertigo.

Occasional slight vertigo during the day.

Vertigo, with stupefaction.

Vertigo, with stupefying headache.

In the morning, vertigo, with stupefying headache, which lasts all the forenoon.

Vertigo, with stupefaction and burning in the vertex.

Stupefying vertigo immediately sets in with the pain.

In the morning, repeated, but only momentary, attacks of vertigo; more in the open air, less in the room.

Vertigo and stupidity early in the morning (after three hours).

Vertigo, early in the morning, as after intoxication (after a quarter of an hour).

Vertigo, coming on principally early in the morning; it commonly lasts from one to eight minutes, and returns several times during the day at short intervals.

Momentary vertigo, with pressive and drawing headache in the forehead.

Attacks of vertigo, combined with a tottering gait and indistinct sight, even of near objects; these attacks come and go every five minutes, and can only be entirely removed by thinking of something else.

Vertigo coming on while meditating, walking in the open air (after eight days).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.